News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Charges Include Drug Trafficking And Postal Embezzlement, Destruction, And Theft.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after Humana announced it will exit the health insurance Marketplace beginning in 2018...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today issued the following statement calling for a bipartisan, Select Committee on the Russian government’s attempts to influence our political system...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that David Cevallos (46, Miami) and Osbel Sanchez (45, Tampa) have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution. Each faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. Sanchez’s sentencing hearing has been set for April 24, 2017, and Cevallos’s sentencing hearing has been set for May 8, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) recently finished repairs to an aging Y-12 National Security Complex building as part of its excess contaminated facilities initiative to improve safety, reduce cleanup costs, lower risks and stabilize facilities as they await demolition.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today commented on Humana’s decision to exit the exchanges under Obamacare in 2018. The decision follows past statements by the insurer that they would be re-evaluating their future within the exchanges.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ahead of today’s #SubDCCP hearing, Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) previews what audiences can expect the subcommittee to explore in the 115th Congress. First up, the exciting reality of once-futuristic technology: self-driving cars.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of violating federal drug laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Wilmington man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with making threats over Facebook to burn a local mosque, unlawfully possessing dozens of firearms, ammunition and child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Marilyn Whatley, 38, of Columbus, Ohio was sentenced to 21 months incarceration for transporting stolen goods across state lines, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: POCATELLO - April Carrillo, 43, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to nine months in federal prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for preparing false income tax returns for clients of her business, “Carrillo’s Tax Service," U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief United States District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Carrillo to pay $93,945.00 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Kanawha County man was sentenced today to four and a half years in federal prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine for his role in a California-to-West Virginia methamphetamine conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Brian Ashby, 38, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit against ALBANESE ORGANIZATION, INC. (“ALBANESE") and three of its affiliates, NORTH END ASSOCIATES, LLC, RIVER TERRACE ASSOCIATES, LLC, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Gabino Lopez-Lopez, age 27, of Saratoga Springs, New York, was sentenced yesterday to time served (88 days in jail) for immigration fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Christopher Fish, age 35, of Bushkill, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Feb. 10, 2017, by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to four months’ home-confinement and two years’ probation for fleeing and eluding rangers at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Justin Green, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA-OCI), Miami Field Office, Mark Selby, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Guillermo Ortega, 44, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 120 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release for his conviction on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a St. Landry woman was sentenced Monday to 57 months in prison for stealing more than $250,000 from an Opelousas-based medical imaging business.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Information About Aurora Bank Robbery.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee hearing on “Self-Driving Cars: Road to Deployment:"
